What Is The Trinity Challenge?

Preparedness for health emergencies requires more than just pharmaceutical interventions. It demands that we better identify, respond to, and recover from outbreaks before they cause great harm. COVID-19 has starkly shown the need for better preparation. Data and analytics can help.

The Trinity Challenge

The Trinity Challenge is a call to action for the best and brightest minds to contribute ideas and innovations, with a chance to win both funding and mentoring from world-renowned organisations.

We need bold thinking, meaningful collaboration, and committed action to better prepare for the next global health emergency.

The Trinity Challenge is working to uncover solutions that use data and analytics in novel ways, to better inform decision making and guide responses to future outbreaks.

The 2021 Challenge set out three areas of interest:

Identify: to determine the emergence and re-emergence of diseases and the risks they pose to communities.
Respond: to decrease transmission and spread by identifying measures that are effective, equitable, and affordable.
Recover: to improve the resilience of health and economic systems, and address the disproportionate impacts of outbreaks and pandemics, particularly on vulnerable groups.

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Three Foundational Principles:

Inclusivity

Our shared vulnerability to health emergencies means resilience is a global necessity – and our solutions need to reflect this scope and potential for scalability.

Collaboration

Actions arising from silo & solo thinking are unlikely to provide the answers we need. The Trinity Challenge understands that cooperation is of paramount importance, to ensure we don’t lose momentum once this pandemic has waned.

The Trinity Challenge is catalysing the collision between public health and data science, enabling Solution Teams to connect and contribute insights that will translate into global public goods.

Innovation

Data can unlock breakthrough discoveries to inform how we should act in order to improve outcomes. With the right analytical minds and data sources, we can and must develop new ways of protecting ourselves against health emergencies.

The 2021 Challenge looked at three categories:

Identification

This included the investigation of: i) genomic big data of pathogens; ii) ecological, behavioural and other factors causing the emergence of risks; or iii) interventions and incentives to reduce risk and spill-over.

Response

Solutions in this category looked at: i) optimal preventive interventions; ii) ways in which to cut through the ‘infodemic’; or iii) enhanced methods for capturing and extracting data-driven learnings.

Recovery

This category included analysis of: (i) interventions that would best protect population groups including the most endangered; ii) negative second-order consequences that could be avoided; or iii) the integration of the true costs of pandemic risk, with global financial and fiscal systems.

Learn More About The Three Challenge Areas

The Trinity Challenge created a detailed guide with a range of sample questions, to further explain the three categories for the 2021 Challenge.

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